Into The Sun - The Memorable TV DVD Review

Set in Tokyo . Steven Seagal plays Travis Hunter, an American ex-soldier, now working for the FBI's Japanese division. He grew up in Japan and is a Sword Master and Martial Arts expert.

When a Japanese governor running for political office is assassinated Travis is asked to investigate and is teamed with eager rookie Sean (Matthew Davis). The plot then concerns itself with the actions of an organised crime gang led by the vicious Kuroda. Travis becomes a thorn in Kuroda's side and he kills someone close to Travis making it a mission of personal vengeance for Travis to hunt the crimelord down.

Is It Any Good?

It's an unexceptional story with nothing particularly original or spectacular about it. It's fairly talky with just a few action/fight sequences which involve much gory sword fighting.

There are a lot of conversations in Japanese - in fact in some scenes one person is talking in Japanese and the other replying in English although they all seem to understand each other OK. The reason this is of special note is that the Japanese language sequences do not have any in-vision translation subtitles. Of course the DVD has subtitle options which can be turned on to provide these translations but then you get all the English conversations subtitled too - and it's too frequent an occurrence to keep turning them on and off. Although saying all that this was a preview copy being reviewed so maybe it will be something that gets sorted in the actual release.

ANY SPECIAL FEATURES?

Other than language dubbing and subtitles there were no additional features.